I'd like to talk about even more right-wing attacks. Right now about John Murtha (D,PA). From thinkprogress.com
What happened was this: The South Florida Sun-Sentinal reported the following quote they claimed was from John Murtha this pass Sunday:
American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to a crowd of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.
The problem is he never said that. But that doesn't stop the right-wing echo machine. Here are the quotes:
Bill O’Reilly, Fox News, 6/26:
Murtha has lost all perspective and did months ago, but his message is firmly entrenched in America’s far-left precincts. … [T]hat kind of extreme thinking, based on little evidence, by the way, is putting all Americans in danger.
Tucker Carlson, MSNBC, 6/26:
What is really going on here, and you know it as well as I, is that Jack Murtha has been intoxicated by the amount of publicity that he has gotten from his anti-war crusade, and he has become progressively more unreasonable, progressively more left-wing as the days go on, and he is in the thrall of people who, I think, have hostility towards the United States.
Newt Gingrich, Fox News, 6/26:
For an American congressman to say that is beyond any acceptable behavior, and I would hope the Congress would move to censure him.
Now since then the newspaper retracted the story. I am in the process of emailing the guilty offenders at Fox and MSNBC now and if they have the guts to respond I will put it on the site.
But again the democrats attack.
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Where is it stated anywhere that Murtha did not make those comments. I've looked around and everybody seems to say that he did.
The newspaper retracted the story today.
I suspect there's going to be a fall fashion stampede for a whole lineup of items that say this:
"Congressmen who willingly take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged."
-Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
UPDATE:
http://factcheck.org/article415.html
This is the origination of this Lincoln "quote":
http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1472
that ran in INSIGHT magazine
http://www.insightmag.com/
... which is part of News World Communications (see bottom of page in link above) a wholly owned political mouthpiece of the Unification Church, the "Moonies".
http://www.mediaowners.com/company/newsworld.html
I wrote Diana Irey offering her documented proof of what Lincoln never said, CCing all her campaign staff on, first on July 14th, and again on August 4th.
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:c2Ea_lZbzXgJ:community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4871074/m/664107374+%22Rovian+Architecture+Unplugged:+The+Waller/Romerstein+Edition%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8
I wrote her, and her staff, repeatedly warning them of the consequences of their inaction. If you'd like verification, write her campaign manager of record (Bill Pascoe, former Press Secretary of the RNC, is calling the shots behind the scenes) at jason@irey.com and ask him about my repeated warnings.
If you choose to write, use this as the Subject Line "It's showtime.". He'll know exactly what that means.
When all these efforts failed, I contacted factcheck.org with this very same evidence. Brooks Jackson was able to see what Ms. Irey, and her entire campaign staff refused to.
He published this, last Friday:
http://factcheck.org/article415.html
(note the video clip in the top right corner)
I will leave you to your own moral compass for judgement regarding Bill Pascoe's "within hours" response here:
http://www.irey.com/news/contentview.asp?c=35681
In conclusion, it warrants mentioning how this "Moonie" Lincoln quote came into common use, without any questions to its authenticity.
Use Google to do a search for this quote. Go back 10-15 pages and you'll find the older dates of its use. You'll discover it was the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth who brought this fiction to life within weeks of Dr. Waller's article.
You will find Larry Bailey of bootmurtha.com has dusted off this Moonie quote and is using it for his "Revival Tent Pass the Collection Plate" scheme, all over the net, including this gem written the chairman of Bailey's PAC, in which it is used twice, for emphasis:
http://www.thereaganwing.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&page_id=538
It's no accident that Diana Irey was boons-waggled into using it.
Bill Pascoe and Kelli Phiel are the folks Robert Novak refers to as her "handlers" in this article:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15820&o=ENPR003
"Irey, who looks quite young, is a bit green, but her handlers see her as great raw material."
I'll give a dollar to anyone who can decipher the grammar, syntax, period occurring in the middle of the sentence, and random capitalization that occurs in the last sentence of this article.
If you are unfamiliar with who Pascoe and Phiel are, let me introduce you.
Pascoe is the gent who hung tough with Jack Ryan, even after Dennis Hastert rightfully withdrew all GOP support for him in 2004, when Ryan was exposed for insisting his wife go to sex clubs with him and have sex in public.
""Jack Ryan is in the race to stay," said Bill Pascoe, Ryan's spokesman."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0406250361jun25,1,933334.story
Pascoe also the one who called Alan Keyes and convinced him to move from Maryland to Illinois, to replace Ryan. I'll let you Google that, and for Kelli Phiel's history working with Pascoe in the 2004 election.
I wish I could tell you I hadn't warned Diana Irey repeatedly about her "handlers" past, but that would not be true.
Buzz Patterson used this "Moonie" quote at a chapter heading in his book, Reckless Disregard. If you own a copy, check page 65. He was not the only retired military man to adopt this Republican operative's invention. Ollie North did too:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0974579335&id=dQipO2AmNrUC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=oliver+north+lincoln+%22congressmen+who+willfully%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=fBfOMtFSxlavNGKBMbFtreMEwfo
Least you wonder about my interest in all this ...
My family settled in what is now the 12th District of Pennsylvania in 1820, and have lived there ever since.
My great, great grandfather, after whom I am named in honor of, served in Lincoln’s Union Army. He made the supreme sacrifice for our country on March 23, 1862, serving Stonewall Jackson he only defeat in the Civil war.
Lincoln was, to borrow a title, “A Uniter”
When some goofball Republican operative abuses the reputation of our greatest Republican president, in a Moonie publication no less, for the expressed purpose of political gain for today’s Republican Party … it troubles me.
I suspect it will trouble you, too.
Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too
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